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Trump announces second-term travel ban: President Trump is banning travelers from 12 countries and partially restricting travelers from seven others starting on Monday, in an order that echoes his first-term travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries. Countries covered by the new ban include Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan, where thousands are awaiting resettlement in the U.S. Afghans who served with the U.S. during the war can still pursue what's known as a Special Immigrant Visa, but other refugee resettlement has been largely paused since Trump took office.
SCOTUS rules on guns, reverse discrimination: The Supreme Court this week sided with an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work because she is straight. Marlean Ames said that the Ohio Department of Youth Services, where she had worked for 20 years, passed her over for promotion — and then demoted her — because she is straight. In both instances, the jobs were given to LGBTQ+ people. A lower court had required people who are heterosexual, white or male to meet a higher bar to prove discrimination than people who are minorities. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that higher standard violated the Civil Rights Act.
The court also dismissed a claim brought by Mexico against U.S. gun manufacturers. The Mexican government claimed that gun makers aided and abetted the pipeline of weapons from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels. As many as 90 percent of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico originated in the United States. But Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court’s nine justices, said Mexico's complaint "does not plausibly allege the kind of conscious … and culpable participation in another's wrongdoing needed to prove liability.”
The court also, for now, gave the DOGE team launched by Elon Musk unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, data that includes Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court information. Read more.
GOP megabill faces challenges in Senate: At the center of the Trump-Musk breakup this week was the massive Republican bill that would enact core elements of the president’s domestic policy agenda, including tax cuts, increased spending on border enforcement and decreased spending on social safety net programs like Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Trump has been pushing GOP senators to support the bill, but the package’s high price tag has raised concerns — even before Musk took up the cause. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the package would add $2.4 trillion to deficits over the next decade while forcing millions to lose health insurance coverage.
Trump talks with Putin and Xi: President Trump held conversations with two key foreign leaders this week, speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin for an hour and 15 minutes about Ukraine's recent strikes on Russian aircraft and nuclear talks with Iran. The call came after the latest round of talks in Istanbul ended with little movement toward ending Russia's three-year-long war in Ukraine. Trump also spoke by phone with China's leader Xi Jinping in their first known call since Trump began his second term with a focus on higher tariffs on imports of Chinese goods. |
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Going Deeper: Kash Patel Puts His Stamp On The FBI |
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For years, Kash Patel was a fierce critic of the FBI and once even vowed to shut down its headquarters on Day 1 and turn it into a museum of the "deep state."
Now, Patel is the director of the very FBI he long criticized. Since taking the helm more than 100 days ago, Patel has yet to shutter the Hoover headquarters building and reopen it as a museum. But he has begun trying to remake the bureau in ways large and small.
NPR’s Ryan Lucas brings us this deep dive. |
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During a November 2023 campaign trip to Kangaroo Island, a remote island in southern Australia, 10-pound mini dachshund Valerie ran away from the campsite.
Valerie’s owners, Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock, searched for days and enlisted the help of locals, but had to return home to mainland Australia without her.
As weeks turned into months, Gardner and Fishlock thought Valerie might never come home. But miraculously, after 529 days alone in the Australian wilderness, she did, after a farmer on Kangaroo Island snapped a photo of a tiny dog running through fields.
No one quite knows how exactly Valerie survived so many days in the wild. But since her adventure came to an end, Gardner and Fishlock say she's settled right back in: playing with her toys, cuddling in bed and going on walks just like before she went missing. |
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